When thinking of running in Phoenix, trail systems like Phoenix Mountain Preserve, The Green Belt, and the canals may be first to come to mind, but Fountain Hills is the best place to run in Phoenix in my opinion. I’ve been marathon training here for the last six months (yes, through the heat of summer) and have come to appreciate it compared to other areas in the East Valley. With it’s own lake trail, multiple hiking trails, and quiet streets, there are plenty of opportunities for all runners.

The Backyard Adventurer is a collection of lived experiences of the YouTuber Beau Miles. It connects Miles’s lifestyle pillars of adventuring, fitness, making, and Australia in a practical, unpolished way that stays true to his character. YouTube subscribers will recognize the stories in The Backyard Adventurer, but experience new perspectives and context that enhance the familiar events that define Miles’s adventurer resume. Miles’s YouTube channel offers an array of adventuring, building, and Q&A videos with beautiful cinematography, crisp audio, and enticing thumbnails.

My frontend experience is very limited. For a long time, I was resistant to tools and frameworks. I would prefer vanilla JavaScript, HTML, and CSS over React, Vue, or Angular. I picked up just enough ops experience to clumsily make updates to websites, but I’ve recently found a much better system using Hugo and GitHub Actions. Hugo 🔗Even though I’m comfortable editing HTML, I much prefer writing in markdown. Thus, I set out looking for a way to convert markdown to HTML.

It’s not the first time I’ve tried and failed at this, but it’s definitely the biggest failure I’ve had. This might be the final nail in the coffin for this venture. Achieving real, tangible, impactful success is so much harder than I had thought. An Idea is Born 🔗When I was an undergrad at Wisconsin I struggled and ultimately wasn’t admitted to my program - mechanical engineering. I wasn’t accepted into the Engineering School at all, even after strategically applying to whichever specific program had the highest acceptance rate.